Her solitary struggle created some of the best moments in the preceding seven episodes, and that continues here. Sadie Sink anchors the final episode, with the long-suffering Max finally admitting to some of her darkest thoughts and potentially sacrificing herself to Vecna as part of the plan to save Hawkins. That said, these last two episodes are not totally bereft of emotional heft. Courtesy of Netflix В© 2022 Courtesy of Netflix В© 2022 Sadie Sink and Caleb McLaughlin in the season finale of Stranger Things. A lot of the moving pieces are just that: pieces that donвЂ™t contribute to the showвЂ™s greater whole. The ripped-from- Riverdale varsity vigilantes throw a wrench into things, but itвЂ™s hard to take them seriously when a monster covered in muscle tissue is killing people. The Russia storyline continues to stall as the adults have to break back in to the place they spent an hour trying to escape from, and then itвЂ™s neatly wrapped up with a bow at the end. EddieвЂ™s last heroic moments feel stilted and forced the degree of his dramatic sacrifice is unnecessary in the context of the action, and he really doesnвЂ™t need to slice the rope and inadvertently make Dustin break his ankle. There are great set pieces, moments of genuine suspense, and several emotional reunions and goodbyes, but they arrive with plotlines that are more labored than usual. In this sense, the biggest problem of these final two episodes is how arbitrary much of their runtime feels. ItвЂ™s entertaining, but it lacks the purpose of the other plots. The Russians are harvesting Demogorgons as weapons like itвЂ™s the fifth season of The Americans, and Hopper ends up slicing one in half with a sword. They really donвЂ™t do much, though Harbour gets to shed the melodrama of the previous episodes as he and Ryder share some lovely flirty moments. Though Hopper (David Harbour), Joyce (Winona Ryder), and Murray (Brett Gelman) are all reunited, they donвЂ™t end up back in the States until the seasonвЂ™s final minutes. The adults are all still in Russia, by the way. MikeвЂ™s declaration of love for Eleven that (sort of?) saves the day is a bit cheesy, but itвЂ™s a nice change from the moodiness that had settled between the two. Their pizza-joint romp and dough freezer sensory deprivation tank offers some appreciated lightness amidst this seasonвЂ™s intense story.

Courtesy of Netflix В© 2022 Courtesy of Netflix В© 2022Д®levenвЂ™s bullet-ridden plot does get evened out by the arrival of boyfriend Mike (Finn Wolfhard), adoptive brothers Will (Noah Schnapp) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), and still-annoying stoner friend Argyle (Eduardo Franco). This subplot is as peripheral and pointless as they come in a show that centers on a rag-tag group of teens, it feels a bit silly and needlessly Michael Bay-esque to throw gun-crazy government agents into the mix - no matter how cool that helicopter crash looks. This episode (and, curiously, not the finale) inexplicably involves the US military blowing up Brenner and OwensвЂ™ secret underground science base and trying to kill Eleven. ElevenвЂ™s ultimate send-off (or lack thereof) is a nice exercise in restraint for the show, but it comes too late after an episode that waves farewell to her вЂњPapaвЂќ from the get-go. Episode 8, вЂњPapa,вЂќ is home to several scenes of Brenner and Eleven hashing out their twisted father-daughter relationship, not all of them necessary ModineвЂ™s whispery mad scientist is not terribly complex nor sympathetic, yet he gets an inordinate amount of screentime in this episode. Owens (Paul Reiser), who are begrudgingly working together to help Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) get her powers back and beat Vecna. Naturally, theyвЂ™re operating outside of any plan established by the likes of Dr. The townвЂ™s resident motley mystery gang - Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Max (Sadie Sink), Steve (Joe Keery), Robin (Maya Hawke), Erica (Priah Ferguson), and suspected Satanist Eddie (Joseph Quinn, this seasonвЂ™s indisputable breakout star) - band together to create a three-pronged attack to stop this monster. The show picks up with Nancy (Natalia Dyer) being given a dire, Earth-shattering warning from Vecna-slash-Henry-slash-One (Jamie Campbell Bower), the biggest bad to ever curse Hawkins.

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